Gingrich, the RJC crowd-pleaser

Via POLITICO's Juana Summers, Newt Gingrich was bathed in repeat applause and some standing ovations in his speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition's candidate forum, where he focused on Israeli policy but got no questions on that topic after he was done talking.

Per Summers, Gingrich said he would make John Bolton, a former potential candidate, his secretary of state.

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As for the current one, he said, to great effect, "The fact that Secretary [Hillary] Clinton could talk about discrimination against women in Israel and then meet with Saudis?"

He also said he would move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a huge applause line (despite how difficult it actually would be to do, as all candidates who pledge it and then take office learn).

He was asked about the ethics violations he was accused of in office, and said, "I think Nancy Pelosi in the last two days has done a lot to answer that. If she was in the middle of it, how nonpartisan and just do you think the process was?"

He blasted the "hysterical" reaction "from the left" to his comments on child labor and poverty.